Are you in or out?

We all have standards of taste. Indeed it varies depending on what we know and what we believe in as the best of all--the STANDARD that we think is best suited for the situation.

Judgment and sentiment don't always come together. Although I find it hard to realize that. What I believe before I read Hume's point was that they're interrelated. Whatever attacks your emotions which is sentiment influence your judgment. It's too hard to comprehend these two almost synonymous words.

Experience is the best teacher. I truly believe in this. For you to be qualified to critique something one should be very passionate about it. The longer someone is exposed to such field, the better his delicacy of taste would be. As time goes by, the "soon to be" critique would be in touched to finer details. Finer details are disregarded by those who do not possess such fine standards. Some of the judges in various beauty pageants for example are products or veterans in that field. They may be the actual candidates before or even the photographers and designers for that competition. Their practice in their respective fields stands them out. A cut above the rest. Practice really makes perfect!

For aspiring critiques of various forms of art, make sure you've got your own style-- the EDGE! Somehow you may be out of place but I'm pretty sure that in the long run you've got what it takes to be in the circle.

Strange But True

My title speaks for my opinion as to what Edmund Burke said in his article "The Sublime". As far as my emotion is concerned, when I'm in a state of awe, my mind is filled with that specific entity. I in a way believe in the notion that astonishment is similar to the feeling of horror. It is because when you're in horror, the entity which caused the actual horror also fills your mind. It's amazing though that two antonymous words may have the same feeling or reaction.

It is also true that when things are unclear it increases the terror that one person activates in his mind. When things are clear, we are able to prepare for it. If things are clear we are able to understand and therefore know its weaknesses. And so, it decreases our chance to experience fear. An example of which as what Burke said is the idea of darkness. Dark forests fear many of us because we do not know what is inside that forest. Or if ever we pass through that forest, we don't know if we could get out alive.